MISSOULA, Mont. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — January 21, 2014 —
GCS,
a geoanalytics company, is teaming with Global Touchpoints Inc. to
develop Big Data solutions combining business intelligence and
geospatial analytics for state and local government agencies.
Specifically, GCS and Global Touchpoints will be targeting government
offices with Big Data challenges related to healthcare,
energy/utilities, and water resource management.

“Global Touchpoints has a proven track record of extracting meaningful
business intelligence from Big Data to give their clients an edge on the
competition,” said GCS Director of Strategic Partnerships, Rob Kinnear.
“GCS will build real-time geoanalytics into their solutions to add a
geospatial context to the derived information.”

GCS has begun leveraging the IBM Watson processing engine to develop
cognitive Big Data solutions that tap directly into the Watson
intelligence for deep content analysis and evidence-based reasoning in
support of critical decision making. GCS is developing solutions for
markets that rely on Big Data processing to make business decisions.

“The domain knowledge and subject matter expertise that GCS carries in
the field of geospatial data, and the technology based services and
solutions of Touchpoints are very complementary to cross position and
service each other’s clients,” said Giordan Pogioli, Director of Big
Data and Analytics at Global Touchpoints of Roseville, Calif. “When it
comes to helping the government catch up to the commercial sector with
their information management, you would be hard pressed to find a team
of technology and business domain experts out there that are more
qualified to deploy these revolutionary systems than the combined
capabilities of our two firms.”

At its core, Global Touchpoints is an expertise-based IT solutions
company that has emerged as a nationwide leader in business intelligence
by tapping into the unknown information otherwise trapped within the
internal and external data sets of large organizations. Often involving
the development of cutting-edge technology platforms, custom
applications, and advanced machine learning systems, these solutions
translate into vast business advantages for Global Touchpoints’ clients
in the public and private sector.

“Our geospatial solutions complement Global Touchpoints’ sensor-based
systems to provide a location component and real-time analysis of the
Big Data as it streams in from the sensors,” said Kinnear. “Whether the
data relates to public health, natural resource or energy consumption,
geoanalytics allows the extracted business intelligence to be visualized
in a geographic perspective – vital information for any government
agency.”

GCS and Global Touchpoints will be discussing Big Data geoanalytics at
the “Big Data 2014: Managing Gov’t Information”
conference
in Sacramento on January 22. To set up a meeting, contact Rob Kinnear at
rkinnear@yourdatasmarter.com
or 406-546-9255.

About GCS

GCS is a geoanalytics company delivering award-winning solutions through
cloud, mobile and analytical network infrastructure. With over 200 years
of technical expertise, GCS converts your Big Data into Smart Data
through customer-driven, innovative applications. GCS customers gain
strategic value through increased productivity, efficiency and
profitability, optimizing mission-critical business processes. For more
than a decade, the GCS team of experts has delivered smart solutions for
a diverse array of public and private organizations – from start-ups to
multinational corporations – helping our clients make location
information actionable, meaningful and valuable.

Touchpoints has 10 years of award-winning service delivering turn-key
solutions to complex problems that no “off-the-shelf” products can fully
address, as well as providing expert teams of technical and domain
specific thought leaders who deliver 100% on-shore or on-site
professional help to its clients. Touchpoints has solidified itself as a
trusted advisor to F500 firms and to new entrants alike, providing the
applications, analytics and data-driven decision-making support that
power the future of mobile and cloud computing, and Big Data Analytics.